And that's to speak nothing of the art direction and scenery. There are next to no technical mistakes in the movie adaptation, and while the characters' faces could use some more work, SHAFT has put the effort into making the animation flow as well as possible. A TV series which, mind you, was marred by subpar animation and technical mistakes in its original broadcast (which have sorta-kinda been fixed in the BluRay release). It is a beautiful anime to look at, befitting of a full-feature movie and far more than just a copypaste of the TV series.

A place where a movie adaptation can not only equal the source material, but surpass it, too.Ī glimpse at the art is enough to tell the quality of the movies. So where does that leave Madoka★Magica? Somewhere else entirely. TV to movie adaptations don't have the greatest reputation, and really, it's hard to be too surprised by that when comparing the bulk of them to the quality of their source material. Now, let's be honest - the first thought that came to mind when hearing about these movies was that SHAFT was milking the money cow. Enough to spawn a movie adaptation only two years later. It was dark and twisted - it took the tropes of the genre and fed them to the ghouls.Īnd it was a massive financial success. occasionally making you wonder if the girls are the ones you should really be rooting for.

The villain is driven not by greed or vengeance, but by rational motives,

They struggle with the concept of right-and-wrong, that 'justice' is arbitrary and often fanciful. Important characters die in brutal fashion. And yet there's no anime quite like it.īack in 2011, Madoka★Magica took the anime industry by surprise with a decidedly mature take on an otherwise lighthearted genre. what more could a young female audience ask for?Īll of these of these things are prevalent within Madoka★Magica.

Friendship, frilly dresses, cute young girls, and equally cute mascots. A number of things come to mind when thinking of the mahou shoujo genre.

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